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Although Adams and Eliot have traditionally enjoyed a good rapport, Adams has bickered with Mather, Leverett, and Pforzheimer Houses in recent years—with the conflict often centering on Adams’ gong, a coveted prize in inter-House skirmishes...
...Venezuela is likely at a military disadvantage - especially since many of its soldiers and officers aren't enthusiastic about either Chavez or the FARC. "There are too many Venezuelan generals who won't want to go to war over the FARC," says Michael Shifter, of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washinton, D.C. "Would they follow Chavez's orders...
...theme of pragmatism was picked up again in the context of inter-Korean relations. "The core task," Lee said, "is to help all Koreans live happily and to prepare the foundation for unification" of the peninsula. But that, as everyone knows, is easier said than done. It is perfectly true that nothing lasts forever and that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many...
...former head of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence’s (ISI) political cell recently confessed that he was responsible for political manipulation in Pakistan’s 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the America’s supposedly unfaltering ally in the War on Terror, General (ret.) Pervez Musharraf and his desire to paint an image of Pakistan as an extremely dangerous, unstable country ready to fall into the hands of extremists the moment he leaves. Musharraf pretends...
...When cameras cover massive police operations during municipal campaigning, I indeed think it's a manner of influencing opinion, [and] of wanting to create fear," Royal told France Inter radio following the sweeps. If so, it wasn't the first time police and media activities in France's troubled housing projects were apparently used for political communication. In the autumn of, 2006, for example, units of over 100 riot cops staged raids in two troubled suburbs west of Paris with scores of journalists in tow - in both cases making few arrests, with no charges ultimately filed. At the time, Sarkozy...